Example sentences of "but he find [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that most of those years are just a blur but he finds it hard to forget that he was locked in a secure ward for the seriously mentally ill for two weeks . |
| 2 | But he found himself unable to say it , especially not to this so very obvious gentlewoman . |
| 3 | ‘ Cafiero , that rich son of a pig , he came this way , tried to make the peasants rise on his own estates , ’ Davide 's father was talking , ‘ but he found them hard to excite down Acquaqueta way in spite of everything . |
| 4 | But he found it impossible . |
| 5 | The kindness of Cinzia Miletti 's heart was a quality Zen had considerable difficulty in imagining where Ivy Cook was concerned , but he found it easy enough to believe that in her husband 's absence Cinzia had been feeling bored and had welcomed any excuse for going into Perugia . |
| 6 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 7 | But he found it difficult to feel much pity for Yorick . |
| 8 | He did not attend torture personally , but he found his natural aversion to mistreating a defenceless person gradually being eroded . |